CU-Boulder Students Set To Ship Space Shuttle Payload

Jan. 21, 1997

NEWS TIP SHEET Jan. 22, 1997 CU-Boulder Students Set to Ship Space Shuttle Payload A group of students from the CU-Boulder-based Colorado Space Grant Consortium will ship a scientific payload to Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland this week in preparation for a July launch on NASA鹿s space shuttle Discovery from Florida.

Affirmative Action Examined At CU Law Conference Feb. 8

Jan. 21, 1997

CU-Boulder Grants Awards To Various Outreach Programs

Jan. 20, 1997

The Vice Chancellor聮s Awards and Grants Advising Committee at the University of Colorado at Boulder has awarded grants to support outreach projects by 22 CU-Boulder employees for 1997-98. Outreach programs extend the resources of the university and serve various educational, social, economic and cultural needs of communities throughout Colorado.

Alumni Fund-Raiser To Feature Talk By Son Of Boxer Joe Louis

Jan. 20, 1997

Joe Louis Barrow Jr., a Denver businessman and son of legendary boxer Joe Louis, will give the keynote address Feb. 1 at the Black Alumni Scholarship fund-raising dinner at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The event is part of CU-Boulder1s observance of Black Awareness Month. Barrow will speak at 6 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center. Tickets are $35 and can be ordered by calling (303) 321-8542.

Fiske Planetarium Invites Public To Spring Lecture Series, Sky Viewings

Jan. 16, 1997

Several noted faculty members at the University of Colorado at Boulder will present lectures in the Fiske Planetarium during the spring semester lecture series. "Once a month, come share the beauty of the heavens in the Star Theater," said Katy Garmany, astronomer and planetarium director. "Audiences will be able to ask questions of the astronomer speakers and learn about what1s happening in the night sky."

CU-Boulder Black Awareness Month Features A Variety Of Events

Jan. 16, 1997

A month-long celebration of the African-American culture will showcase music and dance, film, in-depth discussion and ethnic food in recognition of Black Awareness Month, observed in February each year at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Horace Boyer To Direct Choirs For Black Awareness Month

Jan. 16, 1997

Boulder-area singers are invited to participate Feb. 1 and Feb. 2 in the Gospel Music Festival, a long-standing and popular event during CU-Boulder1s annual observance of Black Awareness Month. The two-day festival will be directed and conducted by Horace Clarence Boyer, professor of music theory and Afro-American music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Boyer has conducted the festival since it began 10 years ago.

Cooling During Earth's Last Ice Age

Jan. 15, 1997

New evidence indicates Australia's interior cooled by more than 16 degrees Fahrenheit during the last ice age, hinting that dramatic temperature drops associated with glaciations at the poles and in the Northern Hemisphere reached around the globe.

CU Students And Professors Win Prize

Jan. 15, 1997

A five-member team of researchers and graduate students at the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be honored for their scientific paper announcing the creation of a new state of matter at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 15.

CU-Boulder And NIST Physicists

Jan. 15, 1997

Physicists Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are the winners of the 1997 King Faisal International Prize in Science and will share a $200,000 award. The Boulder physicists were honored for their creation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new form of matter predicted by Albert Einstein and expected to shed new light on the strange realm of quantum mechanics.

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